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Synchronization Model and Resource Scheduling for Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems

In-Ho LIN, Bih-Hwang LEE, Chwan-Chia WU

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This paper presents an object-oriented model to handle the temporal relationship for all of the multimedia objects at the presentation platform. Synchronization of the composite media objects is achieved by ensuring that all objects presented in the upcoming "manageable" period must be ready for execution. To this end, the nature of overlays is first investigated for various types of objects. Critical overlaps which are crucial in synchronization are also defined. The objective of synchronization is to ensure that the media objects can be initiated precisely at the critical point of the corresponding critical overlap. The concept of manageable presentation interval is introduced and the irreducible media group is defined. The resource scheduling of each presentation group for media object pre-fetch time versus buffer occupancy is also examined. Accordingly, a new model called group cascade object composition Petri-net (GCOCPN) is proposed and an algorithm to implement this temporal synchronization scheme is presented.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E83-D No.4 pp.857-869
Publication Date
2000/04/25
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Category
Man-Machine Systems, Multimedia Processing

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